Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) emir Abu Mohammed al-Joulani has for several years been actively rebranding himself and his group as an anti-Bashar al-Assad Syrian nationalist group and distancing the group from its al-Qaeda origins (Frontline, February 1, 2021). However, regardless of al-Joulani’s public disassociation from al-Qaeda, HTS efforts ultimately still support al-Qaeda Central’s (AQC) regional interests in the Middle East …
Speaker McCarthy uses the State of the Union to indulge in some idle provocation against a NATO ally, raising the age-old question: Is our political class more vicious or more short-sighted?
European authorities fear solo attacks indirectly inspired by Islamist websites, while also weighing the consequences of repatriating their citizens from IS prison camps in Syria.